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Size of boards?

  • 11-03-2015 1:59pm
    #1
    woodrow wyatt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 109 ✭✭


    Sorry if it in the wrong area.
    I have being looking around boards for the last few weeks and can see its huge, there is a forum for almost anything you can think of.
    It got me wondering just how large is boards, if it was to be downloaded onto a hard drive and put in a time capsule for people in the future to look at and see what life was like today how much space would it take.
    Would it be 100gb in size? maybe more, maybe less, anyone have a guess at the size.
    Post edited by Shield on


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  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Interesting question.
    Back in 2003 http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=77391

    2011 http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056287581

    Not really a Blog/Wiki issue, moving to Feedback that often deal with similar questions.


  • #3
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    No longer a computer hiding under one of the owners (DeV?) bed thats for sure. :D


  • #4
    Boards.ie: Chris
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭Boards.ie: Chris


    It really depends how you want to define what constitutes Boards and the data you want to keep.

    The raw data in the database is knocking on the door of 40GB at this stage. But that is purely the text of posts, user data and configuration details etc. The code is a few GB to. If you wanted to store all the access data, you're looking at around 8GB. Per day. All of the attachments and images are close to 3 TBs. I couldn't give a figure on including the likes of YouTube videos, tweets etc.


  • #5
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,708 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    40Gb seems insanely small for a site of this size.

    Would be nice to put it through winrar, copy it onto a usb stick and be able to say that boards.ie is in your hand


  • #6
    woodrow wyatt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 109 ✭✭woodrow wyatt


    thanks for the interesting answer, i would have never guessed 40gb


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  • #7
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    One unnamed individual once put the whole forum into one subforum
    360_F_102352090_ie3kLjDIvgrT1sxVDknWCUh8PxgMYzM7.jpg




  • #8
    Tokyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,656 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Nicolas Cage wrote: »
    40Gb seems insanely small for a site of this size.

    To put it in perspective, that's roughly the equivalent of 162 copies of the 32-volume Encyclopædia Britannica set. That's a lot of text....


  • #9
    reprise
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭reprise


    mike_ie wrote: »
    To put it in perspective, that's roughly the equivalent of 162 copies of the 32-volume Encyclopædia Britannica set. That's a lot of text....

    With or without white space?

    Honest question - T-Sql?


  • #10
    Tokyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,656 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    reprise wrote: »
    With or without white space?

    With.


  • #11
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Unless you make the print smaller..


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